purse BM-As1933-0508.53

Period:Unknown Production date:20thC (early?)
Materials:silk, gold, glass,
Technique:embroidered, satin, tablet-woven, wrapped,

Dimensions:Length: 9 centimetres (excluding drawstring) Width: 11 centimetres

Description:
A purse; embroidered; to hang from a belt. Semi-circular; on one side made from navy blue, on the other from pink, satin silk cloth. Floral and foliage embroidery, worked in polychrome silk yarns and couched gold metal-wrapped thread. Orange tablet-woven silk drawstring, with pink glass inserts, held in place with wrapped silk yarn.
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Comments:Register addition “Tibet”. See: http://tibet.prm.ox.ac.uk/